thanks for all your help,I got a dummy load and got antenna matching very close.replaced all 3 tubes,and neutralized finals.Replaced hv cap feeding finals.set now puts out 100+ watts and getting good reports yea!After a good while of listening and butting in all output dies,didn't think to look at high voltage.I'll do that next. my suspicion is out put transistor on rf board I think it was #10.thought I might find a glue on heat sink for fun,but then will that act like an antenna? Just what is the bad thing that happens when transmitter is keyed with no antenna .set came from ebay.

I got caught out with my FT102 CW crystal osc. Very slow starting so I would actually send RQ CQ CQ........I increased the current in the FET and that cured it. But solder sealed xtals do lose activity over the years as well as drifting in frequency.

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